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Nicholas Boothman
He suddenly knew what he had to do. He couldn't
just quit the game; he had to smash the board.
“You saw it,” Henry said, his voice quiet but sharp.
“You saw the truth before they could scrub it.”
The man looked confused. “Yeah, so?”
“So, you and me,” Henry said, leaning forward.
“We need to start telling people what we saw. Not just
the switch, but the whole damn machine. It's time to
stop letting them buy comfort with lies.”
The man just shook his head, exhausted. “They’ll
never listen, mate. It’s too big. People want the lights
back on. That’s all they care about.”
Henry stood up, the lightness in his chest replaced
by a hard, granite resolve. “We’ll make them listen.
We’ll force them to choose courage over comfort. We'll
show them that the cost of the lie is always higher than
the pain of the truth.”
He turned and left the hospital, leaving the man to
his trauma and the city to its darkness. The sirens were
still wailing, singing the official tune of 'everything's
fine.' But Henry was listening for a different frequency,
the silent, dangerous frequency of absolute truth, ready
to be weaponized.
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